A write up of Contrapoints twitter Wank
It's kind of weird to post a long response to twitter wank here, where no one may have the slightest clue as to what I'm talking about, but I needed a long form space.
So, my thoughts on a controversy that burst forth on twitter that was ostensibly about pronouns, and actually about a lot of other things.
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So, my thoughts on a controversy that burst forth on twitter that was ostensibly about pronouns, and actually about a lot of other things.
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To me the thread reads as a pretty standard variety of Mild Moral Cowardice that kicks in when you believe on some level in the illusion of safety in anonymity or low likelihood of being recognized/called out for living your life your way. Things ARE changing. Lots and lots of people seem to view visibility as equated with righteousness or honesty or what have you. If you wanted to live your life in relative anonymity without having to engage in these difficult and often painful or emotionally charged conversations, I can see that being uncomfortable.
But like you said.....this person is literally a youtube video channel person who makes money off sharing her opinions and ideas? Like, you can’t have it both ways; you can’t genuinely expect people on a public platform to sympathize with your “oh things are changing and that makes it harder” or “oh my issue is becoming polarized in new and different ways in our shifting culture and that leaves me feeling unsafe” ...... while they have a whole JOB (bc that’s what it is) that is literally talking about and engaging with these subjects.
Like honey if you can’t take the heat don’t work as a chef. Get another job.
By which I obviously do NOT mean the heat of abusive comments bc there is no excuse for that shit, but rather I mean the heat of Things Changing And That’s Hard For Me.
On a completely separate note hey I don’t think I’ve written anything about my genderqueer recent woolgathering. Or my genderness at all? But I have been coming out as nonbinary at work and like in life in general including coming out to myself bc I have been around genderfuck for so long that I really genuinely think I just...I dunno, never thought about it in terms of my own identity??
There was a Jewish community professional development workshop about a year and a half ago maybe (or half a year ago?) on LGBT+ stuff and they did the icebreaker thing of line up across the room in order of where you place yourself in terms of general knowledge about LGBT+ stuff and I put myself at the literal farthest end of I Know Things looool. And talking about gender nonbinary at the workshop I was like...damn this is actually ME isn’t it, like not just something I understand or get or know people who identify as but literally ME. It was sort of funny.
Hope life is treating you well otherwise!
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